Contact: Maine Channel Promotion Department, (207) 581-1559 Birthday Bash — featuring ‘The Bay State’ — on Nov. 2 ORONO, Maine — Imagine getting $50,000 for your first birthday. The Maine Channel, the University of Maine’s closed-circuit campus television station, was granted an annual operating budget of $50,000, effective this semester. This funding was the first […]
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Contact: Betsy Arntzen, 581-4225; George Manlove, 581-4756 ORONO — Native studies education, Canadian politics and Canadian history are three topics speakers will address as the University of Maine Canadian-American Center presents Canada Week 2006. The 27th annual Canada Week is designed to highlight Canadian studies at UMaine and showcase research being done by faculty and […]
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Contact: Hugh Curran, 581-2609; George Manlove, 581-3756 BELFAST — The international eco-peace community ESTIA, a non-profit organization that includes Peace Studies Program faculty members at the University of Maine in Orono, will present its third annual conference, “Building Today’s Eco-Peace Village,” Nov. 10 at the Hutchinson Center in Belfast. The conference, from 12-5 p.m., is […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Intelligent Spatial Technologies, Inc., a Maine-based business founded by University of Maine graduate Chris Frank, has announced that UMaine campus tours will soon feature the company’s iPointer hand-held device. This innovative technology will allow users to take a robust self-guided tour with abundant information about UMaine buidings […]
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Contact: Lou Morin, MPBN (lmorin@mpbn.org) 1-800-884-1717 Joe Carr, University of Maine (joecarr@maine.edu), 581-3571 ORONO — Five Maine gubernatorial hopefuls will square off in a broadcast debate, scheduled for 8 p.m. Wednesday Nov. 1 at the University of Maine’s Maine Center for the Arts. Maine Public Broadcasting will provide live statewide coverage on television and radio. […]
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Contact: Elizabeth DePoy, 581-1469; George Manlove, 581-3756 ORONO — Elizabeth DePoy, co-coordinator and professor of Interdisciplinary Disability Studies at the UMaine Center for Community Inclusion and professor of social work, has been selected to receive the 2006 Outstanding Achievement Award from the Association of University Centers on Disability (AUCD) for her contributions to the association […]
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Contact: Amanda Morang at 581-1700 ORONO, Me. — The University Bookstore, located in the University of Maine’s Memorial Union, will host author Robert Klose for a lecture and book signing on Thursday, Nov. 2. The event is set for 5 p.m. in Memorial Union’s Totman Lounge. Klose is associate professor of biological sciences at University […]
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Contact: Meilissa Carey (Environmental Defense), (207) 780-4932; Joe Carr (University of Maine) (207) 581-3571 Note: UMaine Prof. Jonathan Rubin will be available on Friday to discuss this publication and its implications. Portland, ME — Environmental Defense today released a guide that will set the stage for the upcoming public discussion over how best to implement […]
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Contact: Derek Mitchell, UMaine Student Government, (207) 581-1701; Joe Carr, University Relations, (207) 581-3571 ORONO, Me. — Janine DiGiovanni, a 1983 University of Maine graduate and senior correspondent for the Times of London and Vanity Fair will present a lecture at UMaine entitled “Other than Collateral Damage: The Effect of the War on Women and […]
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Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — Barron’s Educational Series, Inc. has listed the University of Maine as one of the 247 “Best Buys in College Education” in its new reference book by that name. Barron’s ratings are based on written input from colleges and universities and from those institutions’ students. “It is nice […]
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